Campaign 2000 will release a policy perspectives paper on May 5 that lays out responsible and realistic goals for a social investment plan over the next five years; it addresses the structural crisis in child and family poverty and lays out a comprehensive, multi-year strategy that includes universally accessible ECEC services, a comprehensive child benefit, affordable, secure housing and good jobs.  (For those around the globe, Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada coalition of more than ninety diverse organizations committed to ensuring the implementation of a unanimous resolution by the House of Commons in 1989 to end child poverty by the year 2000.)  It also identifies the changing public attitudes and opinions about taxes and public services and outlines strategies to recover revenues that have been lost through general tax cuts.  Check our website on May 5 at www.campaign2000.ca.

Laurel Rothman, National Coordinator

Campaign 2000 and

Director, Community Building & Social Reform

Family Service Association of Toronto

355 Church St.

Toronto, ON M5B 1Z8

416 595-9230  ext. 228